Monday, June 21st, 2010
GIS Development is pleased to announce that Map Africa 2010- 5th Annual African Conference on Geospatial Technologies and Applications is scheduled on 23-25 November in Cape Town, South Africa in partnership with Department of Rural Development and Land Reforms, Government of South Africa; Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Kenya; and UN Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia. Read
Monday, June 21st, 2010
The A. O. Smith Water Products Company plant in Juarez, Mexico, recently was one of the first manufacturing operations to be certified as part of the State of Chihuahua’s Volunteer Program for Environmental Regulation.The 263,000 square foot facility, which manufactures residential water heaters, was one of just 55 facilities in the Juarez region to earn
Monday, June 21st, 2010
The German radar satellite TanDEM-X was successfully launched from Baikonur, Kazachstan, at 04.14 hrs CET on Monday, June 21, 2010. A first contact with a ground station in Troll was established at 04.45 hrs. TanDEM-X joins its “twin” TerraSAR-X, which has been in operation since mid 2007, in its 514 km orbit. Together, the two
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Autodesk, a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced the availability of Autodesk Topobase 2011 products and Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2011 software, new tools that help customers manage infrastructure assets more effectively and plan for the future. With these products, infrastructure professionals can get a broader understanding of the
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
The 6th Edition of the gvSIG Conference , organized by the Association for the promotion of FOSS4G and the development of gvSIG (gvSIG Association), will be held from December 1st until December 3rd at the Feria Valencia Convention and Exhibition Center (Valencia – Spain), and will once again host the MoskittDay-EclipseDay. Through the exchange of
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
A global alliance between Microsoft’s Vexcel Imaging GmbH and PCI Geomatics leverages the strengths of the two organizations to produce an end-to-end image processing system developed specifically for customers of Vexcel Imaging’s UltraCam series of high-resolution digital aerial cameras and UltraMap photogrammetric software. Read More
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Colortrac, the leading developer of affordable, professional wide format scanning and imaging solutions, will showcase a comprehensive range of advanced high definition SmartLF large format map and technical document scanners at the ESRI World-Wide User Conference in San Diego, California, the world’s biggest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, (14-16 July 2010, Booth, # 616 /
Friday, June 18th, 2010
The Economist – Sharply differing attitudes towards privacy in Europe and America are a headache for the world’s internet giants. Read More
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Due to the numerous and continuous war conflicts that have ravaged the continent, the map cartography in Europe had developed fast and got pretty advanced by the mid-17th century. Back in the 15th century, a systematic work was started to register land holdings in so-called Land Books – early cadastres. During the reign of Swedish
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Intermap will deliver NEXTMap data to the customer from its multi-client data library (MCDL). The customer will immediately receive a majority of the digital surface models (DSMs) that include cultural features (such as vegetation, buildings, and roads), digital terrain models (DTMs) that display the bare earth (with all cultural features digitally removed) and orthorectified radar
